Actinurus sp.
No picture of Actinurus sp. was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Actinurus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Actinurus sp. on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
- Jupiter Formation · Anticosti Group1
- Tortworth Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Actinurus sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Actinurus sp. and its relatives
SilurianWhere Actinurus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Encrinurus2 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus2 sites
- Acernaspis orestes1 site
- Actinurus anticostiensis1 site
- Amphicyrtoceras1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Atrypina1 site
- Beyrichia1 site
- Bolbineossia1 site
- Brachyprion1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Caryocrinites ornatus1 site
- Coenites1 site
- Coolinia pecten1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Costistricklandia lirata1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyrtia exporrectus1 site
- Dalejina1 site
- Dalmanites1 site
- Dalmanites jupiterensis1 site
- Dicalymene schucherti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Actinurus sp., and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 referencesEach of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Actinurus sp. was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Actinurus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Actinurus sp. was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.